Improvement in ice-creepers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. JOHNSON AND WILLIAM AXFORD, OF WHITE HALL, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN ICE-CREEPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,656, dated December 16, 1873; application filed July 12, 1873.

' To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CHARLES H. JOHN- soN and WILLIAM AXEORD, of White Hall, in the count-y of Greene and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Metallic Adjustable Ice-Creepers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representa-tion of a shoe with our invention attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of th'e same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view ot the heel part, and Fig.

4 a similar view of the sole part thereof.

The nature ot' our invention consists in the construction and arrangement of an adjustable metallic sole and heel ice-Creeper for walking on ice, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

Like letters of reference in the several iigures indicate corresponding parts.

A represents ametallic frame, made somewhat of the form or outliueot a half-sole for a boot or shoe, and provided with a rearwardextending arm, B, which has aslot or loop, a, formed in or on its rear end. At the toe of the frame A is au upward-projecting hookshaped lug or projection, b, to catch on the toe of the shoe-sole, as shown in Fig. 1. On each side of the frame A is a plate or ear, d, extending upward, which forms stops or guides for adjusting the frame on the boot or shoe. To these plates are riveted straps C O, which are buckled across the toe of the foot. On the under side are teeth or points x x arranged around and near the edge of the frame, and also under the foot, as shown particularly in Fig. 4.

D represents another metallic frame in the shape or outline of" a heel, which is also, on the under side, provided with teeth or points a: x. This frame D vhas in the center, on the rear side, a projecting curved arm, E, with spur-wheel j' in its outer upper end. At the front corners of the frame I) are projecting arms G G, with rings h h formed in their upper front ends. J represents the strap for connecting the frames A and D, and fastening them to the foot. This strap is first passed overthe foot downward, and the ends passed in opposite directions through the slot or loop a of the arm B, and then through the ring h of the arm G on the opposite side, after which theyl are buckled on top of the foot.

By this construction the frames A and D may be adjusted to shoes of different sizes 5 and anybody using them can walk with perfect ease on the ice.

le disclaim the arm E and spur-wheel f.

IVhat we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination ot' the adjustable' sole and heel ice-crecper D with arms B and G G, respectively, and the straps O O and J, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the above We have hereunto subscribed our 11a-nies in the presence of two witnesses:

CHARLES H. JOHNSON. IVILLIAM AXFORD.

Vituesses ABRAM GEERY, J. N. ISRAEL. 

